How Kejriwal’s arrest is playing out in Punjab
Hindustan TimesThe Aam Aadmi Party was first off the blocks in Punjab when the party’s national convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal launched the party’s Lok Sabha poll campaign on March 11 with the slogan – Sansad ch vee Bhagwant Mann, Khushaal Punjab te vadhegi shaan. The common thread running through the speeches of most party leaders, including Bhagwant Mann, in poll meetings in the state is their attacks on the “BJP and its agencies” for arresting Kejriwal and other leaders without any evidence and the alleged conspiracy to destabilise the AAP governments in Delhi and Punjab. AAP’s state working president Principal Budh Ram said that Kejriwal would be missed very much in the election campaign due to his strong connect with Punjab. At a meeting in Chandigarh three days ago, party MLAs, Lok Sabha contestants and constituency in-charges were asked by Mann and other senior leaders to go door-to-door with the state government’s report card and also tell the people about the Kejriwal’s arrest in the “fake case”.